Johx phillip scott



UNrren S'ra'res ATENT FFICEQ JOHB PHILLIP SCOTT, OF NElV YORK, N. Y.

ART OR PROCESS OF MARKING LETTERS, FIGURES, &,O.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No, 360,115,6latec'l lfiarch 29, 1887.

Application filed April '12, 1886.

To aZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that 1, Jon): PHILLIP Soon, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the Art or Process of Marking Letters, Figures, and other Character on the Surface of Sign-Boards, Show- Cards, Bulletin-Boards,

and other like Surfaces; and I do hereby declare that the followingis a full, clear, and exact description of said invention, which will enable others skilled in the art or process to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Heretofore when it has been desired to mark on sign-boards, show-cards, bulletin-boards, and other like surfaces the printed letters of the alphabet, figures, and other printed characters, persons unskilled in the art of forming them have found it difficult or impossible to make them in a satisfactory manner, and therefore have had them printed in the usual way, or marked on by hand by others skilled in forming letters and characters of that description, causing more or less delay and expense, and requiring the printing or lettering of other cards and signs as often as change therein is required to be made,which is quite frequent, on account of their becoming soiled or defaced, and other signs or cards are required to be made to replace them.

The special purpose of my invention is to aid persons in the formation of these printed characters on the surfaces of signs,show-cards, bulletin-boards, and other like places, especially if they are more orless unskilled in the art of forming them, and to enable them to do the work accurately, neatly, and rapidly, and at greater convenience and less cost and delay than is ordinarily required when the print ing or lettering thereon is done in the usual way.

To carry my invention into effect I takeathin sheet, strip, or piece of textile material, sized preferably extra heavyin the usual way, or other analogous material, and print in outline upon one side of it, or upon one side of separate pieces thereof, all the letters of the alphabet, and also all the figures or digits, including the cipher, and also any other character or 0011-, figuration desired to be transferred; and, if preferred, these printed letters, figures, and

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characters may be detached from said sheet or strip of material and placed in separate compartments for use when required. These letters, figures, and characters are to be printed and used in the various forms, styles, and sizes required for use 011 signs, show-cards, bulletinboards, and other places where letters, words, signs, or numerals are required to be exhibited. In order to make these letters. figures, and characters more convenient for the use hereinafter specified, especially when applied to use by a person unskilled in the formation thereof, and in order to make the lines uniform and regular, I prefer to designate half the dis tance between the top and bottom thereof by a permanent line, mark, or pointon each letter, figure, or character, which, on being ap plied to use, as hereinafter mentioned, must coincide with another line, mark, or point on the surface of the sign-board, show-card, or other surface to which the letters, figures, or characters are transferred. and applied.

The letters, figures, and other characters are to be printed in any form, style, size, or eonfiguration desired; but I prefer to mark each in the way above specified, or in some other analogous way, in order to insure uniformity in the set and formation of words, sentences, numbers, and characters on the sign-surface to which the transfer thereof is to be made.

The surface of the material on which the letters, figures, and characters are printed, as aforesaid, is to be coated on the side opposite said printing with a prepared coloring material,which I denominate dry transfer-ink or dry transfer-color, by rubbing a pigment of it one or more times over the back surface thereof, being careful to include the whole outline surface embraced by the letter, figure, or character on the opposite side which is to be transferred. This coated surface of the material is then placed 011 the sign-surface in the order of letters, figures, and characters required to form the words, sentences, numbers, and characters desired, and properly held in place until the transfer of the outline of the letter, figure, number, or character is made to the sign-surface. This transfer is made by passing a stylus-point or other hard smooth-pointed instrument or substance with a moderate pressure over the outlines and all other line portions of the letter, figure, number, or character desired to be transferred to the sign-surface. Instead of using a stylus, I may use any other suitable means for transferring the outlines of theletters or figures. By this means sufficient portions of the coloring material on the back of the sheet, strip, or piece will be transferred or offset and caused to adhere to the sign-surface to make a faint mark or impression and outline of all parts of the printed letter, figure, or character desired to be made or transferred, and in this way the outlines and intermediate parts of letters, words, sentences, numbers, and characters may be transferred to and formed on the signsurface as fully and completely as desired, after which the printed textile or other equiva lent material is removed, and the outlines of the letters, figures, and characters on thesignsurface made more clear and distinct, and filled in with said coloring-matter, or with other coloring-matter of any color and configuration desired. The coloring-matter on the back of the textile or other equivalent material, being dry and hard, does not stain or blur the signsurface on which it is placed in the formation of letters, figures, and other characters, but leaves the same clean and unmarked, except on such parts of it asimpressions are made by the stylus or other hard pointin forming or transferring theletters, characters, and figures, as aforesaid. Ifthe sign-surface on which they are formed is a hard impervious surface, like that afforded by hard rubber, japanned fabric, or other similar surface-and I prefer such surface-and said transfer-ink is used in forming them, they may be readily rubbed out with a dry cloth or dry sponge, and other signs marked on the same surface in place thereof, in the way above described.

The same coating of coloring-matter on the back of the textile or other equivalent material may be used, as aforesaid, in making successivetransfers of the same letter, figure, or character to the sign-surface as often as desired, depending upon the amount of coloring material with which it is coated.

The coloring material which I prefer to use in coating the material may be termed dry transfer-ink? or dry transfer-color.

If the sign-surface to which it is desired to transfer said letters, figures, numbers, words, and characters is of aporous character, Iprefer to make said surface substantially nonporous by some well-known ordinary means before said letters,'figures, numbers, words, and characters are transferred to said signsurface, as they can be more readily removed from such non-porous surfaces, ifdesired, and other signs put in their place.

Having fully described my invention, what I desire to claim and secure by Letters Patent The process of transferring the outlines of letters, numerals, figures, and other characters from textile or other analogous material, consisting in printing, marking, or painting on separate strips or pieces of material the outlines of said letters, numerals, or figures, coating the opposite side of said material of said letters or figures with dry transfer color or ink, then placing the said surface of the coated letters or figures on the sign-surface and passing a suitable instrument over the outlines of said letters and figures for transferring the same, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

JOHN PHILLIP SCOTT.

Witnesses:

M. B. ANDRUS, SINCLAIR CAMPBELL. 

